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Tonearm Project Consumer Study

Hello! I am a second year engineering student with an interest in vinyl and audio systems, my team and I are doing a year-long project to design a high-end tonearm targeted at vinyl enthusiasts. As part of this, we made a short questionnaire which we hope will let us consider some real opinions from in our design process.
 
The importance of this survey is mainly for the (imaginary) stakeholder, who has to be shown that we have considered the needs and wants of a potential customer of this product. We can then consider how to use this, if at all, for our decisions in the design process.
 
The link to the Microsoft Forms questionnaire is as follows:
We hope to hear your thoughts!
If you have any questions about the project or the questionnaire, please feel free to contact me using the email in the survey.
 
 
nickgoatley

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millercarbon
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🤣🤣🤣Lovely!🤣🤣🤣

If "education" is so great, how'd you miss that this whole thing is "imaginary"?

The importance of this survey is mainly for the (imaginary) stakeholder

 

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millercarbon
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One of the questions, how much would you spend on the arm, cartridge, or base?

There was a time when everyone but everyone knew it was a record player. Some people called them changers. Or if it played one at a time then it was a fully auto record player. The best of these, semi-auto, would only raise the arm at the end.

Best of all of course were the manual turntables. The manual turntable does nothing but turn the platter. Over time the word manual was dropped so that today we call them turntables. 

At no point in this 100 year history did anyone anywhere ever call the turntable "base". Except I guess today, where it seems the more education you get, the less you know. I answered the questions and know you will get a good grade.

Because: grade inflation.

But hey, don't feel bad. I once saw WSU Nutrition Grad Students showcase their talents with an authentic "Greek Cuisine" menu at our major hospital cafeteria.

Uh, your giro, no lamb? "People don't like lamb." 

Not a one of them even knew the first thing about "cuisine" Greek or otherwise.

Because: the more they teach, the less you know.

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